Insider Brief Autonomous ground robotics startup Shifters has raised $10.2 million in seed funding to expand development of AI-powered robotic teams for defense, security and other high-risk environments, with the capital earmarked for agentic AI development, manufacturing readiness and international expansion. The round was led by Ace Capital Partners and brings the company’s total funding…

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OpenAI has launched a major enterprise expansion of Codex, releasing six job-specific plug-ins targeting data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each plug-in bundles integrations and context to make Codex functional out of the box for non-technical knowledge workers. The move is backed by an internal report showing Codex now has more…

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NADA AI’s Aippy, billed as the world’s first AI-native game community, has closed its first funding round led by Hong Kong-based Glowill Capital, reaching a post-money valuation of $250 million. Proceeds will fund global talent acquisition and user growth. Since launching in April 2025, Aippy has surpassed three million downloads and is approaching two million…

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring AI companies to voluntarily submit new models to the government for testing 30 days before public release — a significant reduction from the 90-day window in an earlier draft, following sustained pressure from the technology industry. The order explicitly rules out any mandatory licensing or preclearance requirements for AI model…

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Uber has introduced a $1,500 monthly cap per employee on agentic coding tools — including Anthropic’s Claude Codeand Cursor — after the company exhausted its entire annual AI budget within four months of the year. Employees can track usage through an internal dashboard, with exceptions permitted on a case-by-case basis. The overspend followed an internal culture of encouraging staff…

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Anthropic is scaling up Project Glasswing, its AI-powered vulnerability detection programme, to around 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries — a significant expansion from the 50 initial partners granted access in April. At the programme’s core is Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s most powerful model to date, capable of identifying thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across weeks of scanning. The…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. For years, Microsoft’s AI story was really OpenAI’s story. At Build 2026, it felt like the tech giant was finally writing its own path. With seven new in-house models, an OpenClaw-based agent, agent-first hardware, and more, Microsoft stopped looking like…

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AI is changing our world, but the stories of who build it often get lost in the noise. Behind the headlines and hype, a group of women are solving AI’s fundamental challenges – despite working in an industry persisently impacted by gender inequality. Women make up just 22% of AI professionals worldwide and only 12%…

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Artificial intelligence has made enormous strides in the past few years – with the introduction of a wide range of AI tools changing the landscape of how we assess data and operate within online spaces forever.  This page ranks the 50 best universities to study AI around the world, based on scope, prestige, and the…

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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale…

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